A Warehouse District institution with a fresh tasting menu and a recently-opened Algiers restaurant are among The New York Times' 50 best restaurants in the country.

Emeril's, the famed restaurant celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse opened in 1990, and Saint Claire, a restaurant opened in June by friends Cassi Dymond and Melissa Martin, were selected with write-ups by Times writer and former Times-Picayune food critic Brett Anderson.

Emeril's, 800 Tchoupitoulas St, Warehouse District

One of the Crescent City's most acclaimed restaurants has successfully made the transition to a tasting menu helmed by Lagasse's son E.J., Anderson wrote.

"Skepticism that E.J. is too green to land Emeril’s pivot to a pricey tasting-menu place is erased by a suite of canapés that includes an oyster po-boy

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